Red Hat has broadened access to Ceylon, its JVM-based programming language intended to overcome the limitations of Java.
The Red Hat team behind Ceylon has unveiled a website, ceylon-lang.org, opened up access to the Ceylon git repositories and delivered a pre-release build of an Eclipse-based IDE.
Red Hat’s Gavin King has also …

Elephants, eh?

Had to happen

1: Someone invents a nice, simple new language that concentrates on the essentials and leaves out the unnecessary stuff that makes older languages hard to use.

2: Over time people realise that the "unnecessary stuff " was there for a reason, so it gets bolted back on as an ugly wart. Eventually the clean new language is a warty, twisted mess that is just as impenetrable as the ones it replaced.

3: Then someone invents yet another simple new language that leaves out different "unnecessary stuff".

Parsed as "red-hot Cylon sauce"

Back to the actual topic, I see some nice features... but we've already got Clojure, Scala, JRuby, and even Groovy for keeping the JVM and access to existing libraries while ditching the bad bits (i.e., the Java language). Life just likes to keep reenacting xkcd #927.